“Humility will help us see oursselves in true perspective and keep our minds open to the truth.” ~ Alcoholism, the Family Disease Today, when I ask my Higher Power to remove my shortcomings, I will try to do so with a peaceful heart. All I have to do is to ask my Higher Power for healing. Although I may not know how my help will come, I can remain serene. It means that I do my part and trust God to take care of the rest. Humility is said to be perpetual quietness of heart. True humility to take my rightful place in the wonderful partnershp I am developing with the God of my understanding. I am simply accepting my place in my relationship with my Higher Power, no more, no less. I needn’t demean myself, and I have no one to impress. I don’t beg or demand: I neither grovel nor puff myself up. When I take the Seventh Step (“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings”), I calmly ask for help.
Let’s be geniune and see where that takes us. I think the pragmatic morality of this program surpasses the white-toothed facade I grow up with. I am no longer a slave to the outward apprasial. Without strength, beauty is just a target. The thing I have faced in this program attempting to find a path of intergration. I have seen my own shadow in Jungian terms the thing I have kept locked away. Love and light and flinging flowers in the air who actually wants that as a way of life? In a world crumbling under the burden of sloppy agape, maybe we need to appreciate the beauty in the beast. Looking for inner beauty seems dangerously narcissistic to me. Click on the image to go to the Amazon page. The different names I use have their own creative energy. Yes, Auila Saulter is yet another pen name. Please take a gander at my latest writing. I am totally willing to learn to love myself.” ~ Louis L. “I now choose to rise above my personality problems to recognize the magnificance of my being. This will bring me closer to seeing the truth as my ally and recognizing my own inner loveliness. Today I will take some time to strengthen my relationship with my Higher Power. Only when I risk taking a close look at myself can my fears give way to the truth: As a child of God, I am all I need to be – loving, lovable, and splendid. Such a spiritual foundation makes a truly searching and fearless moral inventory possible. Regardless of how shaky I amy feel, I am safe. These Steps help me to trust that, although the ground on which I stand may quiver, I will not fall, for I am held firmly by One whose will is not so easily overturned. I call upon that Power for help with the Second and Third Steps. Only a Power greater than myself can overcome the effects of this disease. I am powerless to change the fact that alcoholism has afffected my life. I’ll see that the truth I’ve avoided is my own inner beauty. Al-Anon has shown me that if I face the effects of alcoholism by working the Steps, this belief will fade away. I used to think that if I ever looked carefully at myself, my secret fears would be confirmed: I’d see that I am hopelessly flawed and unworthy.
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